22 August 2017

It was Norma Orenstein Gootkin's family who hailed from Labun, Ukraine - the community associated with the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association landsmanshaft burial plot in Beth Moses Cemetery.

GOOTKIN

FATHER

Here lies

Avraham son of Yakov Moshe haLevi

May his soul be bound in the bonds of the living

ABRAHAM

BELOVED HUSBAND

DEVOTED FATHER

DEAR GRANDFATHER

15 FEB. 1905

29 DEC. 1970

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MOTHER

Here lies

Nechama daughter of Tzav haKoheyn

May her soul be bound in the bonds of the living

NORMA

BELOVED WIFE

DEVOTED MOTHER

DEAR GRANDMOTHER

FEB. 2, 1906

APR. 17, 1986

Norma Orenstein was born Nechama Gorinstein in Labun on, perhaps, 2 February 1906 or 15 December 1906 to Feiga (Fannie) and Joseph.[1] Nechama, her mother and several siblings landed in New York on 7 November 1921.[2] The 1930 census indicates that her father immigrated in 1912.[3] I have not yet located his passenger manifest.On 16 March 1935, Norma Orenstein married Abe Gootkin. Abe was the son of Jankel and Alte Gutkin and was born on 13 February 1905. His home town is likely to have been Lepel, Vitebsk Gubernia, Russian Empire (today in Belarus). I have not located his immigration papers, but his father's passenger manifest and naturalization records indicate he left his family behind in Lepel.[4]

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